Thanks, the next best thing to taking a walk myself.
I'm keeping my eyes open for the Lady's slippers that I found last year.
DO YOU HAVE SOME SIGNS OF SPRING 2013? #2
Lovely stroll through the blooms. That bloodroot IS a purty little thing!!
Nothing overly exciting--but here are a few things...
--Bleeding heart, F-G-me nots--candytuft. Small front door bed
--My Bob Hope Camellia buds afre starting to show color...time soon to be dazzled....
--Campanula "Elizabeth'--muchly multiplied. Anyone want some?
--My Euphorbia "blooming"...
-Orangy-red primrose...
The variegated solomon's seal is coming up! I thought I had killed them all last summer, but I think they may just disappear in the summer like other ephemerals. Is that right?
--Daffodils i=around my KK Hibiscus bed. These are later blooming..
--Donners Brunera--it came back--and now has buds. First time...
--A Pothos HB at HD--This is a new coloration for me...Neat!
--None of you commented on this picture from HD--when i took all their "Spring Colors"
This is a new plant to me---it is called "Blue Eyed Grass"....Very pretty....
Short--clumping--drought tolerant--...Perfect for rock gardens, No?
4" pot--$3.67--if i remember....
Gita, I really like Blue Eyed Grass, I picked some up twice at the swaps but still don't have any growing at my house just never seems to come back the next year.
Paul, Such a lovely stroll thanks. I always forget how sandy the soil is in your area.
Jen, Love, Love, Love them both.
I have tons of our native Blue eyed grass. It is delicate and cute, like a very miniature iris because it is a relative in that family. It is coming up nicely now, will bloom, then get kind of crispy and dormant later, in hot weather?. I don't know if this nursery type Blue eyed grass behaves that way. Or if mine does it because its located in a site that gets dry in summer with roots of trees.
Well, sally--You know those plant stickers don't tell you much of anything...
Not even the name.....sometimes... G.
another sign of spring
my big crabapple tree full of blossoms and every bumblebee in five square miles buzzing in the tree!
I'd been trying to grow Blue-Eyed Grass ("Lucerne") for years. I bought it several times. Sally gave me some of hers. It all disappeared. Then out of the blue (pun intended) this year I have 5 patches of it show up! I'm so happy!
ssgardener -- variegated solomons seal is very tough. And it creates huge stick-like horizontal roots -- which I learned this year when I was trying to cut a piece for the swap. In the past I guess I have moved newer pieces and didn't encounter those big sticks. The mature ones are glued on to a tough network of roots like nobody's business. I'm not at all surprised that yours returned! How many shoots do you have?
HM, I got a very small start last year. I may have 4 shoots coming up.
It was probably from me -- 4 shoots is excellent -- I think I gave everyone 3 shoots. It will increase slowly but steadily.
One of my fav's looks so very elegant. Thanks Happy for the ones you gave me.
HM, I just counted and it looks like I have 8 shoots of variegated solomon's seal coming up! Woohoo! But they're way too close to the other plants. I didn't know they'd come back up, so everything's planted on top of one another. :-/ This seems to be an issues with most of my spring ephemerals.
SSgardener, Solomons Seal plays well with others. I like it weaving in and out where it will, like an informal woodland planting . It is also pretty tough!. I like to have it arching over more diminuitive woodland/shade plants
It is also Perennial Plant of the Year for 2013 so maybe more available!
Love that I have tulips opening everyday
violets(purple violet is our state flower) and a sea of johnny jump ups
Jen,
I love violets - Feb birthday month flower too. The white one in the first picture is one I don't think I've seen before - pretty. I'm trying to grow 'freckles' from seed this year - put them in WS containers. Just have a few that have germinated so far.
Teri - My freckles just started blooming today. We have some 10 or 12 Violas in bloom today, some below.
V. sororia 'Freckles'
Bicolor Bird's Foot Violet - V. pedata var. bicolor
Pale or Cream VIolet - V. striata
V. coronata 'Skippy XL Plum-Gold'
NO ID white violet
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Love those violets. Years ago I went to a plant swap with a friend I potted up a container of my purple violets, white violets and my yellow violets. She asked me why I was taking weeds to a plant swap. Really some people!
Some more of our Violas currently in bloom.
Sand Violet - V. affins
Labrador Violet - V. labradorica
Smooth Yellow Violet - V. pensylvanica
Three-Lobed Violet - V. triloba
No ID blue violet
David and Pat - how beautiful. I didn't realize there were so many varieties. Just one more thing to add to the collection "want" list. Is it the three-lobed violet that you gave me last year that I was oohing and ahhing over and that we discovered making its comeback last week by my big white rock? Holly - I would NEVER think of violets as weeds, but so many people do - I guess because they show up anywhere... Terri
Terri - Yes, the Three-Lobed Violet is the plant you mentioned. All the species I posted are native to the Eastern US except for the V. coronata 'Skippy XL Plum-Gold'. Even the 'Freckles' is a cultivar of the local native V. sororia, Common Blue Violet. Besides the plants posted above, we have several other native violets that are not currently in bloom or have eluded observation.
LOVE that freckles!!!!
Redbud trees are in full bloom here. THose were swarmed- literally- with bees yesterday
It certainly was a pretty drive this afternoon down to Annapolis.
The Quanzan Cherry trees on my street are starting to bloom as well.
Believe it it not--my dead "bird Condo" one has blooms on the few remaining branches.
Will snap a picture tomorrow....
They are so fleeting......A hard rain will knock the down every time... G.
Crabapples are fleeting too, I bet mine has lost about all the petals in the rain. Lots of rain here last night.
This weather is so strange. Yesterday it was in the 70s, the rains came and this morning I had to put the heat on since the house temp dropped quickly overnight and the birds could get a chill, which I do not like that to happen.
The star magnolia is still blooming but the rain has almost ruined the blooms. The pink weeping cherry is turning pink and so is the pink dogwood. Very slowly. The daffodil field is almost all wilted. Hundreds of beautiful daffodils completely ruined by the intense heat, cold and now heavy rains. Not a good year for selling them either. The winds have been damaging also. They have no real cover in the field and they just take a beating. I put this picture up on FB yesterday to show how many are in full bloom.
The hyacinths are all drying up also...they usually bloom for weeks but the wind and rain has knocked them down and they are just wilting. The grape hyacinths are just coming in full and this is a spot of them outside my greenhouse under the lilacs.
I noticed the peonies and the peony trees are really growing now, they have weeks to go before they are to bloom. That is a quick review of here on the farm. The Iris of course are looking healthy and good and the other day I put some mix and red day lilies in a corner of the back yard where I am hoping to attract some hummers. They were brecks carpet border lilies.
Back to work. Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe. JB
LOVE the grape Hyacinths---hate their dying off foliage......
Because they will grow no matter what--I, sometimes, just cut the foliage back.
1--This Hyacinth is my oldest--the big, white blooms with spots of red inside.
It is my itsy-bitsy bed, but It is growing by leaps and bounds and has buds on it.
2--Endless Summer hydrangea leafing out
3--Some of the 17 pots of Hostas along the fence. They are ALL available--just ask....
4--One of 3 lg. clumps of Monkshood--doing OK--so far.
5--JB--just for you---this is one of the latest blooming CC's "juvenile" (means 2 years old).
Gita, I would like the pot of Hosta to the far right in your pic. I need to fill in a border I have and those would do the trick with the green/white white predominating. Thanks, I'll request over on the swap thread, too.
Judy
sad to hear JB.
I personally don't care so much for the look of Kanzan cherries that are all in bloom right now, from afar, muddy pink and the gren leaves, ... BUT to walk right underneath a big one is a different thrill altogether.
Judy--
All the hostas have white and green leaves. There were 2 more that had the "more white" you liked.
Do you want all 3 of them?
Just took pictures of the other two--they are still a bit smaller...They are SOOO miserably jammed
in those 6" pots. Once you re-pot them--I think they will just take off....
How can anyone not like the fluffy blooms of a Q. Cherry tree? That is--until they start blowing
all over the street....in about 4 days......
Also--here is a picture of the "Condo" Cherry tree....not much left of it.
AND--Ta-Dah!! The secret entrance into the Bird domain--the on in the center of the stem..
It is quite large inside...I should peek......of course--the nest may be in the "spare bedroom deeper in....:o)
Is this a sign of Spring? I heard of having ants in my plants, but not cats in my soil. At least she is sleeping and not pooping.
AAARRRRGGGHHHH! Yesterday I "weeded" all the volunteer California poppies.
And today I realized that those were not ragweed but poppy leaves.
Sigh... I'll learn eventually.
ARRRGGGHHH!!! I feel your pain
Oh, I have those same type of issues when doing my clean up.
I solve that problem by not cleaning up....
LOL, Well that is one way to deal with it just wait till everything grows and see what it is.
Oh my GOODNESS you guys are sure sharing some WONDERFUL photos!!!
JB, I had to giggle when I saw your "cat in the soil" pic! =)
I'm with Happy, I try to keep from 'weeding' volunteers and desirables by simply keeping my weeding activities to BIG FAT weeds ONLY. I cleaned out the beds ... last weekend, I think it was. Got all the big fat mammas out of there, but there were LOADS of teeny little guys where I'd direct-sown my Alyssum last year.. thought maybe they might be volunteers, either Alyssum or Petunias (had those around that spot too), so I just left the teeny babies alone... safer that way! ;)
I'd like to take this opportunity to formally say THANK YOU HEAPS AND TONS to all you wonderful people who lovingly shared their Hostas with me last Fall at Sally's Swap. WOWEEE they are really filling back out again like gangbusters!!! After I got the front beds cleaned out last weekend, I pulled all the pots out from under the bench in the back yard (I've decided that that is a good 'over-winter' spot for all the perennials back there), cleared out all the leaves, and lo-and-behold, EVERYthing was found to be coming back nice and lushly, Wheeee!!! I'll share a few pics that I took on the 15th... they've all at least QUADRUPLED in size since then. I'll get more pics as soon as I can. My Virginia Bluebells were even in bloom already when I pulled 'em out from under there, gosh! Anyway, so THANK YOU ever so much, you all have made my Hosta dream come true!!!
